(Posada) Friend won't talk, goes to jail

[DoYouEverWonder]

Jul. 13, 2006

The U.S. government has arrested a Miami friend of Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles in Texas as part of an ongoing grand jury probe into Posada's illegal entry into the United States from Mexico.

Ernesto Abreu, son of well-known Cuban exile militant Ernestino Abreu, was jailed in El Paso July 6 after he pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before the grand jury investigating how Posada entered the United States, the elder Abreu said.

Shana Jones, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Texas, said she could neither confirm nor deny Abreu's arrest. Abreu's father said his son was arrested on contempt charges for refusing to talk, even after prosecutors offered him immunity. He is being held in a jail in New Mexico, his father said.

"I can't feel happy because my son is in prison," Ernestino Abreu, 81, said Wednesday. "But I am proud that he is a man of principles."

Abreu's arrest comes as Posada, a Cuban with Venezuelan citizenship, is in the midst of a legal battle for his freedom. Posada's lawyer, Eduardo Soto, said there is a hearing on Aug. 14 in El Paso in which Posada will argue that he should be freed. An immigration judge has already ruled that Posada can't be deported to Cuba or Venezuela because he could face torture there, but that he can be sent to a third country that will take him.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15025554.htm

[acmavm]

1. It's funny but I wonder how this man's father defines principals. I hardly

think defending a mass murderer from prosecution is the common understanding of the word.

[wakeme2008]

2. Why are Terrorist supported in the US

:shrug:

[Demit]

3. IOIYAR.

That old saw "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" only goes one way.

[saigon68]

6. They are our Terrorists as opposed to

SOMEONE ELSE'S TERRORISTS

[hobbit709]

4. This is the part I like

"An immigration judge has already ruled that Posada can't be deported to Cuba or Venezuela because he could face torture there,"-Does the government even have a clue as to the irony here?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Posada is pretending the current administration operates the way

the old one did when he was the head of a secret police:

Caracas, July 17 (LP) A man previously tortured under the orders of Posada Carriles in Venezuela revealed a list of more than 60 people killed by groups led by the Cuban born criminal.

Angel Bastides, a former member of the Communist Youth, then arrested by a group from the Police General Division (DIGEPOL) headed by Posada Carriles, denounced that many of the killers are still free.

Bastidas ascertained Posada, already wanted by Venezuelan justice from the United States, has played a role in the repression of civil rights activists in the 1960 and 70´s.

Venezuela is currently clamoring for the extradition of the Cuban born terrorist with a Venezuelan citizenship, responsible of the blowing of the a Cuban plane in mid-air, which took the lives of 73 people.

In an article published in “Todo Adentro” weekly edition, Bastidas recalls that Posada was one of several Cubans counter-revolutionaries hired by the Venezuelan government during the term of 1965 -1970 to lead repression.
(snip/...)

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/1717266.php

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~snip~
1967 to 1975: The CIA taps him to work with the General Directorship of the Venezuelan Police, and then later with that county’s intelligence service, the DISIP. From Caracas, until 1975, he works in the service of several intelligence agencies, always as a high-ranking DISIP official. He also has time to help organize torture sessions of Venezuelan guerrillas during this period. At this point in his career, according to the declassified CIA documents, Posada Carriles seems to have begun worrying his bosses with his extreme propensity for violence. From then on, his “actions” are no longer openly linked to the CIA and U.S. government (though this is merely because there are still not enough documents available to prove it).
(snip)

With the Irangate scandal heating up, in October 1986 Posada begins working on a variety of projects that will take him through the next fourteen years. He works with the Salvadoran police to capture and torture members of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and does similar work in Guatemala.
(snip)

This señor, with his angelic face, is without a doubt the most soulless terrorist of our times: he has killed and tortured in Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cuba, Argentina, Portugal, and in the United States. But for the moment, Washington is only pressing hypocritical charges of “illegal entry” into U.S. territory.
(snip/)

http://www.narconews.com/Issue38/article1353.html

The Miami Herald has some information about this phase of Luis Posada Carriles' life, it's only accessible with a fee:

"Former guerrilla says Posada Carriles ordered him tortured"
Etc.

[noonwitch]

7. I thought we gave asylum to cubans who get here?

I guess it's only if they are coming by water and manage to set foot on American soil that way.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Posada has Venezuelan citizenship

If you read the lead snippet its right there.

[Judi Lynn]

9. They're probably also having trouble devising ways to protect him

as they used to, considering so many people know he has spent his life as a terrorist, bomber, torturer, and mass murderer.

The publicity is making things a little uncomfortable for them, but they will rise to the challenge and find a way to keep him safe, you can be sure.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Safe and quiet

Can't have him running around Hialeah setting up press conferences anymore. That was a serious dumb move on his part, but this crew never was that bright.